Career
Karafiatova participated in the 2010 Vancouver Winter Games for Slovakia. All three continued their careers by playing hockey in Saskatchewan for head coach Barrett Kropf at Caronport High School in 2004. Karafiatova, Tomcikova, and Velickova played for the Caronport Lady Cougars but Karafiatova and Tomcikova also played on the boys team
She was part of the Slovak roster that defeated Bulgaria by an 82-0 score in September 2008 in the Olympic Pre-Qualification tournament in Latvia.
In 2009, she competed in the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) World Women's Championship Division I, in Graz, Austria. She was part of the Slovak team that qualified for the top division of the 2011 World Women"s Championships.
Vancouver Winter Games She played for the Slovakia women"s team in the 2010 Olympics, the country"s first appearance in women"s ice hockey outside Europe. Of note, she was the captain of the Slovak national team at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Games.
Her first Olympic women"s ice hockey game was 13 February 2010 against Canada.
Slovakia lost the game by an 18-0 mark and she was penalized for roughing in the first period. She did not register any points in the Olympic tournament as Slovakia finished in eighth place. Karafiatova attended university in Linkopings, Sweden, where she played defense on the varsity hockey team
